The Sorrento Cheese Buffalo Italian Heritage Festival is in full swing. You know what that means? Italian stereotypes are being reinforced up and down Hertel Avenue! It also means there’s lots of tasty Italian-inspired food available for you to try.

The annual Italian fest is the inspiration for today’s Friday Favorites question:

Where’s the best place for Italian food in…

Have you heard about the Taco Bell employee who left his job in the most public way possible? According to media reports,  one unhappy worker at the Taco Bell - KFC at the intersection of Transit and Losson in Depew left his job with pizazz.

In a sign out front, the unnamed former employee posted the following message: “I quit - Adam / **** you (smiley face)”

A photo of the sign…

J.P. Bullfeathers brought its A-game to the Taste of Buffalo.  Narrowing down a choice from the Jack Daniels’ Glazed Chicken Fingers, the Tempura Fried Green Beans with Dipping Sauce and the Mac ‘n’ Cheese Lollipop was tough.  I didn’t even consider the healthy choice—the Italian Artichoke Salad—because who goes to Bullfeathers to lose weight?  Not I, said the plump American.

These are a few of my favorite things:

- Rootie’s Blue Cheese
- Bison dip
- Chef’s sauce

And this year, as I do a little online holiday shopping, I might throw a few of these favorite things in my virtual shopping cart. Christmas Central, a holiday decor store, will now offer tasty Buffalo classics—like the items mentioned above—along with a slew of other WNY gourmet treats. Why…

Celebrate the 150 year anniversary of Italian unification with Italian food, fun and culture at the Sorrento Cheese Buffalo Italian Heritage Festival. The festival will run July 14 to 16 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and July 17 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The action starts right away with a performance of the National Anthem at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, followed by a weekend full of la musica…

Red Osier’s “Roast Beef Sundae” at the Taste of Buffalo was a must-try solely because of its name.  After the occasional Denny’s late night venture introduced me to the “Maple Bacon Sundae”—one of the peaks of “Baconalia”—I’m intrigued by entree-type dishes with dessert-related monikers. 

The roast beef sundae, though, didn’t try to mix sweet ice cream with…

While the entree description for Orazio’s Restaurant’s Buffalo Style Fried Shrimp didn’t strike me as especially creative, I wanted to know if I’d be able to taste the shrimp—the flavor of seafood is usually subtle, and when combined with a powerful complement like “buffalo sauce” (hot sauce and butter), the fish flavor is easily buried.  That’s why shrimp is usually…

UB researchers have found that teens like drinks with extra caffeine added, according to a recent study. And while “Soda manufacturers claim that caffeine is added to their products to enhance flavor,” researcher Jennifer Temple said, “the majority of people cannot taste the difference between caffeinated and non-caffeinated soda.”

Temple and her team hypothesized that there were…

Don Burtless, food blogger and founder of BuffaloEats.org, had his dream come true when he was asked to be an official Taste of Buffalo judge. Watch Don and his wife Alli sample some of Western New York's best eats.